Breaking News: Calls for Kanye West to Replace Pete Davidson on Blue Origin Space Flight

company on March 23, which would have put him in the company of previous celebrity space tourists William Shatner and Michael Strahan.

“Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.”

While no reason has been given for the change of date, the closing sentence in Blue Origin’s statement that a new crew member would be announced prompted a wave of requests for that sixth person to be West, 44.

After GeekWire contributing editor Alan Boyle shared a headline on Davidson dropping out of the trip to space, he pondered: “I wonder if @kanyewest is available…”

“Get Kanye on the phone!” Complex pop culture writer Karla Rodriguez commented, alongside a GIF animation of West aboard a small aircraft.